48 Vignettes about everything - (a flash comic)

colin · Post by **colin** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 7:27 am

Hey,

Just posting a link to the latest flash-based comic I've just finished up. It's called "48 Vignettes about Everything."

To quote my artists statement (it was handed in for school). "It is, at times, and even at the same time; absurd and funny; sad and lonely; poignant and political. It has explored, in a sense, everything. I believe everything is connected; from the coffee cups on our classroom table, to the coffee bean plantations in Peru; from the paper in our sketchbooks to the forests of the Ottawa valley; from the microscopic beings living in our food to the absurdity of our everyday lives - I wanted to explore as much of it as I could."

View it here: http://www.infantshout.com/lcpwork/unit ... opage.html

Also just working on a comics mainpage for my site, which is: http://www.infantshout.com/comics/

And if you have the time, I'd love to know what you think of the comic. I'm quite happy with the end result, but I know there are plenty of avenues to explore here.

colin
comics@infantshout.com

kaos_de_moria · Post by **kaos_de_moria** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 8:01 am

i think you archieve an interesting effect by linking three stories to each other. on this way you actually expand scotts gutter. between the tree stories there is something like a space between panels (6th (? -last) category as described in UC). in that way the reader artifically links the stories abut the item, the place and the person. i wonder if it would be possible to actually tell seperate stories like this, but use the other panel to panel transitions as proposed by scott.

btw: thanks for the link. i enjoyed reading

kaos

colin · Post by **colin** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 2:20 pm

hey,

thanks, glad you enjoyed it

yeah, with for example, the 'tree' story i was trying to suggest the disconnect between the actual trees and them being cut down, and the paper mills that process them into paper, cardboard, etc... that was the idea of the bigger space there, and having the pulp mill come in from the far side.

i was trying to develop connections between all the people, places and objects, even in small or humorous / random ways to try and graphically explore the interconneted-ness of our little blue globe. if had had more time, or continued with it further i think it could lead to interesting devlopments in the actual storytelling / navigation system, as a method for getting this story across. but it was a school project and thus there was a deadline. i came up with an idea of using a 'compass' as a navigation system as well, but no time to develop it yet.

anyways, thanks for the feedback!

colin

Veleno · Post by **Veleno** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 11:19 pm

I also rather enjoyed that.